Category:
User Experience
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
autonomy
, city
, design
, industry
, researcher
, sensor
, technology
Description:
To make urban living for older adults easier, more independent, fashionable and comfortable
Overview:
This project aims to couple design with advanced innovation material to produce smart furniture, footwear and clothing with assistive functionality. Assistive technology can provide older people in urban areas with security that will enable them to live independently. However such technology is often unsightly and stigmatises the user resulting in high abandonment rates. The MATUROLIFE project will integrate creative artists and fashion designers into the research team to facilitate design-driven innovation.
Objectives:
The overall objective of the MATUROLIFE project is to put creative and artistic design at the heart of innovation journey. Design will be coupled with advanced materials innovations to produce high added value, aesthetically pleasing and functional products for Assistive Technology (AT) making urban living for older people easier, and more independent. This ambitious project will bring together SMEs operating in the creative industries, with scientists working on cutting edge advances in electrochemistry and nanotechnology. Through the involvement of SMEs in the materials supply chain highly innovative, conductive, multifunctional smart textiles and fabrics will be produced to enable the production of novel AT prototypes.The new emerging AT products will address current and future societal challenge on urban living for older people whilst assuring competitive and sustainable development of SMEs. The project is answering key challenges outlined in the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 and more specifically the Strategic Implementation Plan of the EIP AHA2. This ambitious project brings together 20 partners: 11 SMEs from 9 EU countries, RTDs, NGOs and academics in a EUR 6.0 million, 36 month project.
Initiatives:
Innovative ways of using technology to question and enquire the conventional, current assistive technology designs.
Shortcomings:
The website doesn't detail out their findings, process, technology or learnings of their project. For example, even if they can't share the prototype design itself, sharing their learnings or outcomes from user study can be helpful for future innovative minds attempting creative AT.
Relevance:
5
Relevance Description:
This project could help future researchers or technological enthusiasts to think out of box while creating AT.
Quality:
4
Opinion:
Useful and innovative project.
Recommended:
Yes
Overlap:
No
Overlap Detail:
Sources:
https://maturolife.eu/index.php/deliverables/
Keywords:
assistive technology, creative, artistic design, smart textile, electrochemistry, industrial scalability
Submitted By:
?kilem G?cek
Email:
vennila.swiss@gmail.com